10 Pro-ISIS Accounts, Pro-TTP Account, Neo-Nazi Propaganda Threatening LGBTQ
Community Found On Facebook





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Extremist Content Online: Facebook Edition

10 Pro-ISIS Accounts, Pro-TTP Account, Neo-Nazi Propaganda Threatening LGBTQ
Community Found On Facebook



(New York, N.Y.) — The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) reports weekly on the
methods used by extremists to exploit Meta-owned Facebook to spread propaganda,
recruit followers, and incite violence in order to hold the popular social
media platform accountable for its failure to prevent the dissemination of
extremist and terrorist content.



Thirteen accounts containing extremist propaganda for terrorist and extremist
groups, including ISIS, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and a New
England-based neo-Nazi group, were located on Facebook over the course of the
past week, with content including photographs, videos, and audio files.
Additionally, a page for a neo-Nazi record label was located, advertising
shirts with symbols such as swastikas and black suns/sonnenrads.



The extremist and terrorist content found by CEP researchers on Facebook are
clear violations of the platform’s terms of service, yet it often fails to be
removed. Approximately 36 hours after CEP reported the thirteen accounts, only
two were removed. CEP encourages Facebook to takeconcrete action
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regarding the misuse of its site, including by providing Meta’s Oversight
Board with access to any and all information related to its inquiry; bringing
on external experts with core computer science skills, such as U.C. Berkeley
professor and CEP Senior AdvisorDr. Hany Farid
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and integrating Oversight Board members into its corporate board. Meta is
responsible for the extremist content on its platforms, and it must begin to
act as such.



Pro-ISIS, Pro-TTP, Neo-Nazi Content Located on Facebook



CEP researchers located 10 accounts that posted ISIS and pro-ISIS propaganda.
Pro-ISIS profiles posted full-length ISIS propaganda videos, clips from longer
videos, including footage showing casualties from ISIS attacks, unofficial
videos supporting ISIS, photos taken from propaganda videos, and ISIS audio
files. One account used an image taken from a notoriously brutal ISISvideo
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from 2016 as its profile photo. Three accounts had an undisclosed number of
friends or followers. The other seven accounts had a range of 188 to 3,700
friends, with an average of 1,195. In addition to the 10 pro-ISIS accounts, CEP
located an account that celebrated the killing of Pakistani police officers and
posted videos from theTehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
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propaganda outlet Umar Media.



Two pages were also found that posted neo-Nazi propaganda. With over 400
followers, the first page, a propaganda outlet, posted a recent video made by
theNationalist Social Club
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(NSC) and social media and contact information for the group. The post
indicated support for NSC’s actions. The second page, with over 900 followers,
belonged to a neo-Nazi record label and advertised the sale of t-shirts with
neo-Nazi symbols such as black suns/sonnenrads and swastikas. The uploader
partially covered some of the swastika imagery to avoid removal from Facebook.



CEP reported all thirteen accounts to Facebook on July 27. Approximately 36
hours later, two accounts were removed: the pro-TTP account and a pro-ISIS
account that posted a clip from an ISIS propaganda video that showed combat
casualties.



Neo-Nazi propaganda video on Facebook, July 28, 2022.



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